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Lesson
Continuity and stability in project officers are essential elements for successful implementation, especially during the early implementation phases. Delegation of implementation responsibility to the resident mission at an early stage of the project cycle is also good practice, provided locally recruited staff have sufficient familiarity with ADB operational and procurement procedures.

Project Number: 34476-016
Project Name: Gansu Clean Energy Development Project
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For Asian developing countries with a well developed local capacity in electric power or other infrastructure sectors, partnership with an international consulting firm in the implementation arrangements can be an effective mechanism to enable the transfer of state-of-the-art management and operational practices to national companies and agencies.

Project Number: 34476-015
Project Name: Gansu Clean Energy Development Project
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Addressing adequately the social and environmental impact of hydropower development projects during preparation and making sure the local communities affected by the development participate in the benefits of the investment is an important lesson to ensure longer term project sustainability. To achieve this goal, funding needs to be committed before loan approval to ensure that such issues will be addressed during implementation, and independent monitoring mechanisms put in place to measure the impact on local communities.

Project Number: 34476-014
Project Name: Gansu Clean Energy Development Project
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Strong project ownership is essential for successful implementation. In evaluating project ownership, attention must be given during appraisal not only to investment planning priorities but also to whether counterpart funding has been committed, key staff are in place, coordination mechanisms across and within different government levels are working effectively, and an institutional capacity exists to address social and environmental issues affecting the project’s long-term sustainability.

Project Number: 34476-013
Project Name: Gansu Clean Energy Development Project
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Development projects can influence local people in work principles and have a significant benefit on local communities at little cost. Before the project, few people left their communities in search of jobs. Now most young people do, and over 30% of migrants are female.

Project Number: 39652-023
Project Name: Gansu Heihe Rural Hydropower Development Investment Program– Erlongshan Hydropower Project
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Lesson
Acquisition of land early on and advance actions on contracts were appropriate in avoiding unnecessary delays and in facilitating project implementation.

Project Number: 35466-013
Project Name: Dhaka Clean Fuel Project
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Lesson
No new lessons.

Project Number: 32036-013
Project Name: Outer Islands Electrification (Sector) Project
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Lesson
No new lessons.

Project Number: 31296-013
Project Name: West Zone Power System Development Project
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Lesson
The cancellation of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation funds and the delayed implementation of the Nordic Development Fund component affected consumer connection. A more reliable parallel financing arrangement has to be made to ensure the realization of designed project objectives. This matter needs to be addressed under ongoing and future loans16 for the power sector.

Project Number: 36205-013
Project Name: Power Sector Development Program (Project Loan)
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The construction of oil-fueled power plants by the public and private sectors increased Bangladesh Power Development Board's operational costs. The tariff increases by Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission in 2008-2012 were contrary to its tariff-setting methodology, which specifies at least a 10% return on assets. Rationalizing the tariff structure to provide an adequate margin to distribution entities can enable these entities to meet future financial requirements.

Project Number: 36205-013
Project Name: Power Sector Development Program (Project Loan)
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The Bangladesh Power Development Board corporatization target was a premature step, which underestimated the difficulties in the way of major reforms toward unbundling and corporatization in Bangladesh. The government has already changed its power sector reform agenda. Instead of corporatizing Bangladesh Power Development Board, it plans to restructure Bangladesh Power Development Board business functions into several generation and distribution strategic business units, which will operate under the existing legal structure and be functionally separate with more financial authority.

Project Number: 36205-013
Project Name: Power Sector Development Program (Project Loan)
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Lesson
Measurement and verification. ADB Independent Evaluation Department's report noted that the Guangdong provincial government had incorporated appropriate measurement and verification (M&V) of energy savings for the multitranche financing facility investment program implementation. Third-party M&V agencies ensured fair assessment of achievements of energy savings and emission reduction. The measured and verified results of each subproject provided a solid basis for computing the energy efficiency benefits and achievement of the project.

Project Number: 39653-023
Project Name: MFF: Guangdong Energy Efficiency and Environment Improvement Investment Program - Tranche 1
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The actual energy savings achieved of the tranche 1 project are much higher than the anticipated energy savings at appraisal. More elaborate methods of energy saving estimates should have been used. The key is to establish an accurate baseline and design a customized measurement and verification method for verifying the energy savings achieved at the outset. It is also important to consistently use the same methodology for ex ante and ex post energy saving calculations.

Project Number: 39653-023
Project Name: MFF: Guangdong Energy Efficiency and Environment Improvement Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Lesson
The financial intermediary loan modality was adopted, and the loan proceeds were relent to support implementation of more energy saving and emission reduction projects. Separate evaluations of technical feasibility of the subprojects and the financial viability of the candidate subborrowers were conducted by the efficiency power plant project management office and Guangdong Finance Trust Company independently to ensure that the technical merits and financial status of each subproject were assessed.

Project Number: 39653-023
Project Name: MFF: Guangdong Energy Efficiency and Environment Improvement Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Lesson
Strong government ownership is critical to the successful construction of the project and important to facilitate effective implementation and delivery of development results in ADB-financed projects. The Dagushan Hydropower Company (DHC) was consistently proactive and took initiative in solving problems, including the provision of design documents, timely delivery of equipment, approach to dealing with issues, and other areas. DHC's initiative guaranteed appropriate procedures and timely action for key tasks.

Project Number: 39652-033
Project Name: Gansu Heihe Rural Hydropower Development Investment Program - Project 2: Dagushan Hydropower Project
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